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The parliament can order the comission to draft a law regarding a certain area, and then amend it to their heart's content. It's indirect, yes, but as said I think keeping the external drafters is actually a good idea. EU law is complex.
The issue with the US is not structural, but that the enlightenment never arrived among the people there.
Well the EU is trying to make things like visa rules of other countries uniform for all EU citizens. Being a single state would certainly help with that but I don't think it's a prerequisite.
It is the norm in Germany: Want to leave a public church? In one state you do that at the Standesamt, in another in the courthouse. Administration is state prerogative. Interoperability is a good thing but telling member states how to do their administration is a no-go, it's a breach of subsidiarity.
Agreed, however I'd still say that the lack of a European voting public is the main issue. The rest is details which will work themselves out or actually irrelevant. And the voting public thing is necessarily a generational project. If the whole electorate was Gen X and younger things would look very different indeed.